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About Nick Perow

Nick Perow is Editor in Chief of Cut the Cord and is responsible for overseeing the news, reviews, analysis, and featured articles on cutthecord.com. He’s an experienced technology writer and web developer with a degree Information Science from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. In addition, Nick is a dedicated musician, singer, and recording engineer whose work has been featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Shepherd Express, Milwaukee Record, and Bandcamp.com.

A lot of comic fans were surprised when AMC announced that Preacher would be adapted as a TV series. There’s no doubt that their surprise constituted a confusing mix of elation and concern. By any standard, Preacher is not your average comic book. The graphic novel series created by the late Garth...

A Discovery Channel series, Gold Rush is an American reality show centered around the mining of gold in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It’s one of my favorite shows, although I have no idea why. Maybe it’s the way gold rush narrator Paul Christie reliably recaps the events preceding each...

The Walking Dead is one of the most watched TV shows (R) rivaling the likes of Game of Thrones. Despite suffering abysmal ratings on the first half of the premier of season 7, the mid-season premier more than made up for it! Despite it’s faults (Hey AMC, Zombies are good. Use...

The Americans is a popular (fictional) period piece show set in America during the 1980s – the Cold War. The show centers around an American family (The Jennings family)– except, not really, because the parents are actually Soviet sleeper agents who were just activated! If that isn’t the premise for...

When it comes to epic fantasies, very few TV shows can beat the Emmy Awarding series, Game of Thrones. It is one of the most watched and spoken about TV shows on HBO (R). What’s more, what started as a vivid and exciting TV adaption of George RR Martin’s book...